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News and Resources from Pivotal Product
Management
April 2008
Five Tips for Effective Product Requirements
Much of a product’s success—and thus the Product Manager’s success—can
be traced back to Product Requirements.
The
requirements document must provide the vision for the product, plus
steer execution. It must inform and guide many different stakeholders
in the company.
Here are five key ways to make your Product Requirements
document a strategic and tactical force in product development.
User-Centered
Requirements Workshop: April 29-30
This highly interactive course provides a step-by-step process
for creating user centered Market and Product Requirements Documents
(MRDS, PRDs).
Product
Management Intensive:
May 21-22
Learn
from award-winning, practicing PMs and immediately apply the seven best
practices
for greater product success now.
AIPMM
Certification Review and Exam: May 23
Become a CPM and show your leadership in your company or the
marketplace.
A Requirements
Document
template that we built and use
ourselves: Take this
month's 30-second "Hot Button" survey and receive yours.
A good
cross-industry book on the requirements process: Customer Centered Products by Ivy Hooks & Kristin Farry
Webinar on Innovation Games(R) research (recorded Feb. 20 '07).
Good book for software PMs: Use Cases, Requirements in Context by Kulak & Guiney
30 Second
Survey: How do you gather customer requirements?
Take
just 30 seconds to respond, and you'll receive a complimentary copy of
our own Requirements template for your own use! We'll report
the survey results in the next newsletter.
Our
March Hot Button asked how you communicate product strategy. Most
respondents used multiple methods, and shared some great suggestions. Find out
Contact us to suggest
a future Hot Button topic!
Calling
all frustrated creative writers for PM haiku therapy
Oh,
the product management stories you can tell in just 17 syllables!
Submit
yours today for a chance at fame in the next
Pivot Point newsletter.
REQUIREMENTS IN COLOUR
Clients' tug-of-war:
Some want red, some want yellow.
How about orange?
- Colour-blind in the Cotswalds
Clients' tug-of-war:
Some want red, some want yellow.
How about orange?
- Colour-blind in the Cotswalds
